women physicians

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women physicians

Undone

2009

The crush

2002
Dr. Rennie Newton, having served on a jury that acquitted notorious contract killer Ricky Lozada, forms an uneasy alliance with Fort Worth detective Wick Threadgill when Lozada makes her the target of his fatal attentions.

Match day

one day and one dramatic year in the lives of three new doctors
2010
Chronicles the lives of three women doctors, Stephanie Chao, Rakhi Barkowski, and Michele LaFonda, as they prepare for their residencies and complete their first year of internship. Discusses their progress and struggles as they learn to balance family and career.

The patient

2000
Dr. Jessie Copeland, having pioneered a tiny robot designed to excise tumors that had previously been considered inoperable, draws the attention of remorseless mercenary Claude Malloche who thinks nothing of threatening the lives of thousands of people in order to get Copeland to use her technology on his brain tumor.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Physician
1989
A biography of the first woman doctor, who paved the way for other women entering the field of medicine.

Killer dreams

2007
Top sleep therapist Sophie Dunston struggles to help her son overcome the life-threatening night terrors he suffers from, but when a madman tries to destroy Sophie and her son, the terrors become reality and Sophie is forced to depend on retired hitman Jock Gavin.

Chinese Cinderella RB#98

the true story of an unwanted daughter
2004
Adeline is just three days old when her mother dies. She is blamed for the death and considered bad luck. For years, she tries to please her family, wanting only acceptance and love, but often facing rejection. Finally, after discovering literature, she is given the chance to succeed.

Dr. Quinn, medicine woman

new friends
1995
Laura McCoy and Colleen Cooper have been having trouble getting along lately, and to add to their difficulties they find themselves in a strange town where they are forced to stick together. Illustrated with stills from the television series.

Leaders in medicine

1999
Chronicles the lives and achievements of pioneering women in medicine, including cardiologist Helen Brook Taussig, pathologist Alice Hamilton, psychoanalyst Anna Freud, and medical researcher Florence Sabin.

The winter rose

a novel
2008
When India Selwyn Jones, a young woman from a noble family, graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, her professors advise her to set up her practice in London's esteemed Harley Street. Driven and idealistic, India chooses to work in the city's East End instead, serving the desperately poor. In these grim streets, India meets--and saves the life of--London's most notorious gangster, Sid Malone. A hard, wounded man, Malone is the opposite of India's aristocratic fianc?e, Freddie Lytton, a rising star in the House of Commons. Though Malone represents all she despises, India finds herself unwillingly drawn ever closer to him, intrigued by his hidden, mysterious past.--From publisher's description.

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